From 38e47dd0eeb34a5bd2cda0ba2cb7e1da6093761b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 17:55:11 +0000 Subject: Document IMAP's increased robustness. svn path=/trunk/; revision=194 --- fetchmail.man | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 40a84806..1f2dec19 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -466,8 +466,9 @@ software. .pp Running more than one concurrent instance of .I fetchmail -on the same mailbox may cause messages to be lost or remain unfetched. -(This is a design problem of the POP2, POP3 and IMAP2bis protocols.) +in POP2 or POP3 mode pointed at the same mailbox may cause messages to +be lost or remain unfetched. (This is a design problem of the POP2 and +POP3 protocols; IMAP is less vulnerable.) .PP If, using POP3, you find that messages you've already read on the server are being fetched even when you don't specify --all, blame -- cgit v1.2.3